Trichomanes crispum L.

  • Authority

    Maguire, Bassett. 1984. The Botany of the Guyana Highland - Part XII. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 38: 1-84.

  • Family

    Hymenophyllaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Trichomanes crispum L.

  • Discussion

    Trichomanes cristatum Kaulf, Enum. Fil. 265. 1824. Type. Brazil, without collector (holotype presumably LZ destroyed).

    Trichomanes haenkeanum Presl, Hymenophyll. 15, 36, 65. 1844. Type. Based on T. crispum sensu Presl (Rei. Haenk. 1: 69. 1825), and so based on the type of that name, which is

    Mountains of Huanuco, Depto. Huanuco, Peru, Haenke (holotype PR not seen).

    Trichomanes schomburgkii v. d. Bosch, Nederi. Kruid. Arch. 5(2): 148. 1861. Type. Berbice, Guyana, Schomburgk 442 (holotype L not seen; isotypes K not seen photo 19069, US). The US isotype also includes a frond of T. martiusii Presl, according to Windisch's annotation.

    Trichomanes badium Foum., Bull. Soc. Bot. France 15: 144, 147, 148. 1865. Syntypes. Cuba, Wright 900 (syntype P not seen Weatherby photo; isotype US); and Venezuela, Funck & Schlim 601 (syntype P not seen).

    Trichomanes Undign Foum., Bull. Soc. Bot. France 15: 144, 147, 148. 1868. Syntypes. Venezuela, Fendler 289 (syntype P not seen); Venezuela, Fendler 389 pp (syntype P not seen); and Muzo, Depto. Boyaca, Colombia, 700 m, Lindig 140 (syntype P not seen; isosyntype US).

    The first syntype cited may be a typographical error for the second syntype.

    Trichomanes molle Foum., Bull. Soc. Bot. France 15: 147, 148. 1868. Type. Guadelopue, Est. Bahia, Brazil, Blanchet (holotype P not seen).

    Trichomanes crispum var. ß remotum Fee, Hist. Foug. Lye. Antill. [Mem. Foug. 11]: 106. 1866.

    Type. Guadeloupe, L'Herminier in 1864 (holotype P or R B not seen).

    Trichomanes cristatum var. macrothrix Fee, Crypt. Vase. Bres. 1: 186. 1869. Type. Rio de Janeiro, Est. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Glaziou 2246 (holotype P or R B not seen). Ptilophyllum crispum (L.) Prantl, Untersuch. Morph. Gefaesskrypt. 1: 47. 1875. Trichomanes crispum var. fastigiatum Hieron., Bot. Jahrb. Engler 34: 422. 1904, as '"fastigiata,'" nom. nud.

    Trichomanes crispum f remotum (Fee) Domin, Pterid. Dominica 53. 1929.

    Type. Based on plate 86 of Plumier's "Tractatus de Filicibus Americanis," which is based on a specimen collected by Plumier on Morne de la Calebasse, Martinique.

  • Distribution

    General distribution. Tropical America.Guayana Highland distribution. Epipetric, occasionally terrestrial, rarely epiphytic.

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